To most, it’s a no-brainer. There’s the iPhone, the Apple Watch, and the iPad: a family of digital devices which work seamlessly (in theory) with the cloud to give you every song in your library at any time. It’s the future. Yeah, well Apple is still making iPods. But not for long. The iPod line, […]
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Any child of the 80’s worth their weight in Fruit Stripes gum owned a Tiger Electronics product. Tiger Electronics handheld games were the Game Boy before the Game Boy was the Game Boy. Heck, even AFTER the Game Boy, Tiger Electronics was a cheaper alternative to more expensive Nintendo software. Tiger had two things going for […]
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First of all let me say: I don’t enjoy email marketing. I don’t like receiving marketing-based email, I don’t like sending marketing-based email, I hate splicing lists of people into clever, effective segments. It is probably my least favorite activity in all of digital marketing. That’s just me. That said, in an age where “texting is the new […]
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At today’s WWDC, Apple unveiled it’s long awaited music streaming service: Apple Music. But this is Apple, so it’s no ordinary music streaming service, this is Apple Music. It’s a three-headed monster of a service, 1.) music streaming (like Pandora, Spotify, etc…), 2.) a worldwide radio station anchored by a bunch of smart sounding British […]
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As a website designer, as long as I can remember, we had one directive from almost every client who walked through the door: Make sure X is above the fold. Sometimes it was their mission statement, sometimes it was their contact info, sometimes it was the whole site, but it always had to be “above the […]
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On Monday, Apple will hold their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference keynote. Usually focused on software, this is their chance to talk about upcoming operating system updates (to iOS and OSX), minor product refreshes, and sometimes a few surprises. Here’s what I hope to see. 1.) AppleTV – I still have my original 2007 AppleTV. You […]
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On the heels of my post yesterday about Disney’s upcoming Playmation set, I wanted to look back at the Lasertag type games of my youth. Specifically, the epic battle of the “Electronic Warrior Battle Games”: Lazer Tag and Photon. When you were a kid in the 80’s, you had a few choices to make. Coke or […]
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Yesterday Disney announced their latest creation: Playmation. Part laser tag, part “toys to life” (think Skylanders and Disney Infinity), and part wearable technology product, Playmation is Disney’s attempt to take games away from the TV and into the backyard/living room/kitchen/basement… Wherever. It encourages kids to use their imagination to play interactive games with a stationary […]
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